Rory Sheridan

Third year Photography student Rory Sheridan takes us through his top must-see cultural events for the month.

My top picks for this month include site-specific sculpture, design, architecture and a cheeky trip down to Margate to the seaside!

Sculpture in the City

Image: Mhairi Vari, ‘Support for a Cloud’ (2016). Outdoor television aerial, wire coat-hangers, greenhouse/ poly-tunnel repair tape. 3 pieces, approx. 150 x 75 x 65cm each. Discover sixteen exciting artworks in eighteen locations across the Square Mile, in the City of London. The project which has been running for seventeen years includes works by Paul McCarthy, Ryan Gander and Damien Hurst and runs until May of next year in case you don’t have time this month! This is an awesome opportunity to have a gander at mostly sculptural works within a location – try thinking about whether the location in which the artwork is positioned affects your response and thoughts to the work? Is the location it’s placed in important? Free: City of London website

California: Designing Freedom

Image: Photo credit Luke Hayes. ‘California: Designing Freedom’ documents the America west-coast counterculture movements of the 1960s, looking into how these movements fed into the technology scene we see today, in the Silicon Valley. Amongst some of the outstanding objects exhibited is Google’s self driving car! The exhibition’s design is also really intriguing, informed by geodesic domes, one of the favourite forms of architecture in the 1960s and 70s. You have until mid-October for this one. Student concession £12.00: Design Museum